BEWARE the naming of laneways if Google finds out about it: Suburban backalleys have been turned into thoroughfares after the tech giant’s map app decided they were now fair game for its routing algorithm. Resident Sue Graham Taylor attended Perth council electors’ AGM on January 31 to report to councillors that “the laneways behind our…

A DORMANT apartment development planned Carr Place in Leederville has been revived, with the 12 storeys now proposed making it the biggest planned build on the strip.  In 2020 Hanrise Pty Ltd won approval to build the eight-storey, 52-unit, $17 million  “Locale” project on a conjoined block stretching across 194-200 Carr Place. It requiring demolition…

PERTH lord mayor Basil Zempilas is fuming after being blindsided by a state government plan to spend parking tax funds outside the city.  The Perth Parking Policy started out as a joint venture between the state government and Perth city council in 1999 to limit car bays in the city and cut down on congestion. …

A MEAL kit business has beaten Bayswater council’s “pernickety” case against it by proving it’s “industrial” enough to keep operating alongside Maylands’ factories.  My Foodie Box operates on Foundry Road on land zoned “general industry”, packing and sending out vans to deliver ready-to-cook meal kits to customers. Bayswater council has been trying to keep non-industrial uses…

SPARE PARTS Puppet Theatre is back with a new program for younger kids and a season launch in the wings, including a massive performance with Puppet Playtime is something of a rarity for Spare Parts, being targeted at kids aged just three to five. Publicist John Michael Swinbank says they’ve tried to program for littlies…

Poisons taking deadly toll on owls VINCENT bird advocates are calling for a city-wide ban on rodent poisons that also kill other animals, with native owls at great risk if they consume a poisoned rat. At the Vincent council electors’ AGM on February 2, Birdlife Australia member Betty Bryant said the group is sounding the…

PARKERS who overstay just a little bit would have a second chance to pay the extra parking fee and avoid a fine under a system proposed by Stirling councillor Joe Ferrante. Cr Ferrante, who recently copped a parking fine himself, reckons they should drop the fine if the person overstays no more than 90 minutes,…

THE iconic Greens & Co cafe in Leederville is in line to become an Indian eatery and pub. The quirky and chaotic Greens & Co, often stylised “Greens & Cock” due to frequent additions of a painted CK to their sign, closed in April 2021 leaving a large, solemn shopfront in the middle of the Oxford…

A BID to restore free infant immunisation clinics has been voted down by a slim majority of Bayswater councillors. The free clinic days used to immunise about 750 to 1000 kids a year and cost the council around $120,000, until a split council voted to end the clinics to save money in 2022. Councillor Dan…

AFTER five years of efforts there’s finally a safe pedestrian crossing in front of the main entrance to Maylands Peninsula Primary School. Bayswater councillor Elli Petersen-Pik originally raised the issue before he became a councillor and long before his kids started school, and parents later collected a petition in 2019 calling for a crossing. “On…